This is the first in a two-volume critical reconstruction of a socialist, democratic, and non-liberal Nietzschean politics. Although and we cannot individually adopt Nietzsche's ideal of amor fati (love of fate)because it is incompatible with deep freedom of agency, we can create its social conditions. Nietzsche's Immoralism argues that this possibility lies in an underappreciated aspect of his will-to-power psychology: we are driven not toward domination and conquest, but instead to resistance and contest in the form of play, i.e., a feeling of power against equal obstacles enabling the non-instrumental affirmation of suffering. This incompatibilist, anti-teleological psychology leads Nietzsche to his distinctive immoralism: the complete abandonment of moral and cultural methods of human improvement for a historical materialist politics of breeding that produces future higher types through changes to our political order's material conditions. In the process, he reinvents politics as first philosophy: politics is not grounded in moral values but rather the very source of their legitimation. Moreover, despite Nietzsche's professed aristocratism, his immoralism offers a stronger foundation for a renewed left, for it attacks traditional right politics at its very root: belief in moral order, authority, and responsibility.

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ISBN 9783031113581
Author Donovan Miyasaki
Format Hardback
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG